Faraday Building Sackville Street Manchester
Approved on 17 June 2025
Council decision: Scoping Opinion IssuedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Request for Scoping opinion under Part 4, Regulation 15 of The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended)
- Received
- 16 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Piccadilly Ward
- ReceivedReceived16 May
- ValidatedValidated16 May
- Consult.Consultation11 Jun
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided17 Jun
Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Faraday Building Sackville Street Manchester. Manchester has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 weeks quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Piccadilly Ward.
78% of outline applications at Manchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- EIA Scoping Request
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 11 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 17 June 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Buro Happold
- Agent address
- Second Floor Eastgate 2 - 4 Castle Street Manchester M3 4LZ
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Brownfield land register: Weston Hall and Pendulum Hotel, Sackville Street (STUDENT)Register site at or near this address
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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